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Scots Dumpy
Scottish breed of creeper chicken / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Scots Dumpy is a traditional Scottish breed of chicken. It is characterised by very short legs, so short that the body is a few centimetres from the ground; as in other breeds of creeper chicken, this chondrodystrophy is caused by a recessive lethal allele. The Dumpy has at times been known by other names, among them Bakie, Corlaigh, Crawler, Creeper and Stumpy.[8][9] There are both standard-sized and bantam Scots Dumpies.[3][10] It is one of two Scottish breeds of chicken, the other being the Scots Grey.
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![]() Dumpies at the Metropolitan Poultry Show in Baker Street, London, Christmas 1852; wood engraving from: William Wingfield, The Poultry Book, 1853 | |
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Country of origin | Scotland |
Standard | PCGB |
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Egg colour | white or cream-coloured[5]: 277 |
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EE | not recognised[6] |
PCGB | soft feather: light[7] |
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